The X-Products Can Cannon Soon to be Launching Cans before X-Mas

X-Products has been busy making the rounds with their soon to be in production Can Cannon. The cannon has now received ATF approval as a non-destructive device. It will use military-standard blanks through a short ported barrel to avoid damage to the cans.

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Your best bet is probably to load your own. The blanks that are available are salute blanks. They have a very fast powder and are meant for making noise. Grenade launching blanks typically have the same powder as a ball cartridge, such as IMR4895 in a .30/06 blank for launching rifle grenades from an M1 or M1903.

I’m seeing some seriously skewed sales of dollar-store canned soda in the near future.

Blake

you mean in addition to the ones we already use as targets?

thisguy

If there isn’t a video of someone shooting dildos out of this in the near future I quit this country

Nergyl

The Internet will provide, my friend.

Graham2

Are you volunteering to be a target?!

Anonymous

Shooting dildos? Why, then it would be a sexual assault rifle.

…yes, I stole the joke from 4chan.

Phil Hsueh

I can see this thing being used at sport’s stadiums all across the US. Now, instead of being able to just shoot t-shirts from afar you’ll be able to shoot cans of soda and beers from a distance to fans in the upper reaches of the stadium. The only problem would be collecting the money from someone up in nosebleed when you’re close to field/court level.

Ken

Smart phones. Someone places an order for a drink with an app, pays right through the app with Paypal or a card, and waits. Then, you the vendor gets a notification for which seat to send the drink to. You then range it with a laser rangefinder, taking note of the angle of elevation, and dial in your quadrant sight appropriately. You then load up the drink ordered with a special attachment with a parachute and let it fly. Your customer then receives the drink via parachute.

Only 100yds? You can probably extend that range if you load your own grenade launching blanks with a slower powder than what’s in the noise making blanks. It will keep the peak pressure lower while giving more energy to the projectile.

Lance

A weapon for use in case Soda Crackers try to take over. LOL

Nergyl

Can you imagine what will happen when a criminal gets his hands on this device? As soon as someone is struck with a can of soda, they will become addicted to the sugary death water and then instantly die of pop cancer. I know this because I saw an MSNBC report about it.

The federal government should ban this insane weapon of mass destruction. They should also travel back in time to prevent anyone from getting the idea of making one.

SP mclaughlin

Berkeley CA recently passed a soda tax, someone should take this there and unleash total butthurt-ery

Ken

Good thing we have that certain person in NYC who tries to ban high capacity assault sodas.

I want to see a ar-10 upper. Those mini cans and a 3d printed nose cap would rock.

jonspencer

A beefed up throwable camera launched from one of these might actually be of some use, or maybe a small ROV with sensors inside a projectile that protects the ROV and then is discarded letting the ROV do its thing.

Jonathan Wright

now we need a version with a hopper for semi-auto beer delivery.

MR

I understand that this is much cooler, but I’m gonna have a hard time shelling out $200-$400 for this when my golfball launcher muzzle device was $24.95.

John Daniels

So I find myself wondering…is a rifle with this upper on it an SBR? Can live ammunition with a projectile be fired with this? If so, I really don’t see how this is not an SBR.